Hey everyone!! I am glad to release another chapter! this one took a little while, I tried to extend it, but I really couldn't extend it further, please, tell me what you think of this chapter!

Chapter 10: Situational Irony

"Beeping... beeping... that damn infernal beeping..."

Renton thought, as he was shaken out of his sleep. The alarm clock they had, reliable, had one flaw. It had a noise that was, er, well, Let Renton describe it for you.

"That beeping is just designed to piss you off. High pitched... loud... repetitive... yeah, designed to piss you off." Renton thought again. He may have actually stayed in bed that day, even though finals were approaching,

He could vaguely hear someone step into the room, he didn't care... until a few seconds later.

"Renton, sweety" Eureka said, kindly. "You need to get up."

Now Renton knew he couldn't stay in bed, but he would get rid of that alarm clock... all he needed was... and keep in mind he was still half asleep when he pondered this plan: Toothpaste, a rock, a refrigerator, another rock, a traffic cone, and a ray gun.

"How come you can get up so early?" Renton muttered before sitting up on the edge of the bed. Yawning, and stretching. Hoping to wake up a little more.

"I... I don't know. You tell me?" Eureka said, poking him in the arm.

"Well now that I'm up... I'll get ready." Renton said, grabbing a towel, and heading into the bathroom.

"That was nice." Renton said, now fully clothed, and walking down stairs. Seeing Eureka making breakfast, as the kids were already up as well.

"Papa!" They all shouted in unison.

Renton could only stop, and smle, as he grabbed a seat, as they ran up and grabbed a hold of him.

They continued discussion through breakfast, up and until Renton and Eureka had to leave.

In the car, driving to the campus, they had a calming silence. Which was enjoyable, but Eureka started up the next conversation.

"Hey Renton?"

"Yeah Eureka?" Renton said, glancing over, but keeping alert to the road. This was a time when the seniors liked to drive around like idiots before classes. So he had to be careful.

"I was talking to my friends earlier this morning before you woke up. Is it odd that you care for Mater, Maurice and Linck?"

"No, not at all." He said, taking a moment to look over and smile at her.

"Oh because, they always say it's different. They talk about how guys would never be interested in a girl, no matter what, if she had kids." She said, blushing, she knew Renton was different of course. He was the only one for her. But she didn't know all that much about human society, so it was only natural she'd be curious about things around her.

"Generally they wouldn't, but I love those kids. Sure... we did not get along at all when we first met. But I like them, and I want to keep good care of them. Not just because they're yours."

Eureka smiled "I see, that's almost the entire opposite of what they were saying. Which, makes me happy. That they have a father that cares about them."

She said, resting her head on his shoulder.

Renton smiled, generally he'd be more interactive, but paranoia was surrounding this new car. Especially with the insurance rates, he didn't want them rising because some drunk blind-sided him.

As they reached the school, and started walking in, the same motley crew was waiting out front... since recently they couldn't sit in the cafeteria anymore.

"Yo." Brandon said, with his subtle wave of sorts.

Everyone else was doing there own thing. Adrent and Samueseh were talking. And Wolfgang was uttering the cutest and most colorful of things into his hand held game system. Followed by phrases "why didn't you jump! Man stick to your day job!"

Another normal day started as the bell rang.

The classes slowly swung by, as they made their way to Lunch, Renton was there as in his class they got out a good 5 minutes early. Eureka would be arriving with her friends a few minutes later. But before too many people started showing up.

As he had presumed Eureka showed up promptly with a number of girls, she broke off of the pack, and sat next to Renton. Cheerful and quiet as always. Renton smiled as well, as he started to eat his lunch. He noticed Eureka didn't eat at all, which was very strange for her. She generally ate a normal sized bit, but she just stared blankly at the table, so Renton looked over and asked. "Eureka, are you alright?"

Eureka gave him an unsure nod, so Renton briefly dropped the case, but he didn't have to wait long until she brought it up.

"Renton, I'm... sorry about being so unapproachable."

Renton noticed a pattern in how she said this, it generally meant something was really bothering her. "It's alright, it isn't your fault."

"Yes it is Renton." She said, turning more to face Renton. "There is some...brick that is trying to get me to stop liking you."

Renton was a bit upset, but not towards the guy, but more towards the situation. Come one, the guy saves the universe, saves the love of his life, finally settles down; now this prick wants to come along and take that away? It was dreadfully corny in his mind. And, he knew the Eureka had probably meant PRICK instead of brick, her vocabulary had definitely improved over the months in school. But it hadn't grown so far as to include various insults.

"That isn't your fault Eureka, trust me, everything will be alright." Renton said, coming up with a plan.

Eureka managed to bring up a smile and nod. "Thank you Renton."

Well, Renton had one idea in mind, and it wasn't going to be one that everyone was going to like.

Renton was in the large garage of his house, looking at a book he had borrowed, he was clumsily practicing some fighting moves from a book. And he unfortunately hadn't noticed his Grandfather walk in the door behind him. Confused at first, only seeing Renton's back, he called out.

"Renton... what the hell are you doing in here?"

Renton was a bit shocked, as he turned around, blushing deep red and chuckling nervously. "Oh... n-nothing." He said.

Axel had already walked up to Renton, and smacked him in the back of the head before he could blink after speaking. "It's rude to lie to your elders."

"Fine fine... damn it." Renton said, handing over the books on fighting he had.

"So, you want to fight?"

"I don't want to fight." Renton said "I need to fight, someone is bothering Eureka, and I need to show them what I can do."

Renton's grandfather sighed, as he stood up. "Renton, you know what I told you about fighting..."

Renton rolled his eyes "Gramps, this isn't something I can solve peacefu..." Renton was saying, before he was interrupted. With a nice solid smack.

"No." Axel said "I said, and I quote. You should never fight WHEN YOU'RE GOING TO GET YOUR ASS KICKED." Axel said, in a normal tone, emphasizing the last part of the statement.

"So, how do I NOT get my ass kicked?" Renton asked, a little obnoxiously, due to the feeling of disgrace, from having to hear this from his grandfather.

Axel chuckled "I'm going to teach you how to fight. Being in the military at one time, I had some good hand to hand training."

"Oh really, you learned how to wrestle other guys, that reeeally doesn't sound..." Renton said, before he was smacked again.

"Let's get started, before I teach you by using these moves on you."

oooh, epic battle on the way, but can Renton really take out this new guy?

OF COURSE HE CAN, HE IS THE PROTAGANIST!

GOOOOOO RENTON!!! W00T